Unilateral

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unilateral \U`ni*lat"er*al\, a. [Uni- + lateral: cf. F.
     unilat['e]ral.]
     1. Being on one side only; affecting but one side; one-sided.
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     2. (Biol.) Pertaining to one side; one-sided; as, a


        unilateral raceme, in which the flowers grow only on one
        side of a common axis, or are all turned to one side.
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     {Unilateral contract} (Law), a contract or engagement
        requiring future action only by one party.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unilateral
       adj 1: involving only one part or side; "unilateral paralysis"; "a
              unilateral decision" [syn: {one-sided}] [ant: {multilateral},
               {bilateral}]
       2: tracing descent from either the paternal or the maternal
          line only [syn: {unilateralist}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "unilateral":
     bifacial, bilateral, dihedral, flanked, handed, lateral,
     many-sided, monadal, monadic, multilateral, one-piece, one-sided,
     polyhedral, quadrilateral, sided, tetrahedral, three-sided,
     trihedral, trilateral, triquetrous, two-sided, uniangulate,
     unibivalent, unibranchiate, unicameral, unicellular, unicuspid,
     unidentate, unidigitate, unidimensional, unidirectional,
     uniflorous, unifoliate, unifoliolate, unigenital, uniglobular,
     unilinear, uniliteral, unilobed, unilobular, unimodular,
     unimolecular, uniocular, unipart, unipartite, unipolar, univalent,
     univocal